Jurassic World: Dominion director Colin Trevorrow has claimed that the final installment in the reboot trilogy will feature more animatronic dinosaurs and practical effects than the previous two films.
Speaking on Collider’s Comic-Con@Home ‘Directors on Directing’ panel, Trevorrow revealed that he had made a conscious effort to continue to build upon the practical effects of the franchise by adopting the latest technologies to bring the animatronics to life.
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“We’ve actually gone more practical with every Jurassic movie we’ve made since the first one, and we’ve made more animatronics in this one than we have in the previous two,” he said. “And the thing that I’ve found, especially in working in the past couple months, is that we finally reached a point where it’s possible to… digital extensions on animatronics will be able to match the texture and the level of fidelity that, on film, an animatronic is going to be able to bring. And you didn’t use to be able to really mix them. You could really see the seams. And so that part of it is very exciting for me.”
Trevorrow also revealed that he was taking things back to basics with “really simple puppetry” while at the same time borrowing ideas from J.A. Bayona’s work on Fallen Kingdom in order to make the animatronics appear more realistic in their surrounding environments.
“[Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom director] J.A. Bayona really, he found the value in creating really photo-real, just beautiful lighting references that could be articulated just slightly,” he explained. “Just a head and a jaw that could move, but painted beautifully, hand-painted. And we do it for all of the dinosaurs now, so when we put it into a space, you can see how the light reacts to the skin. And even if they ultimately do make that a digital animal, there was always something there reacting to the light in that environment… just puppetry in general, just really simple puppetry is proving to be amazing.”
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Trevorrow previously shared a photo of one of the pint-sized prehistoric stars set to appear in the Jurassic World trilogy-capper. He credited John Nolan Studios for the animatronic dinosaur, which bears a striking resemblance to the baby Nasutoceratops that stomped onto the scene in 2019’s Battle at Big Rock, a short film created to help bridge the story between Fallen Kingdom and its upcoming sequel.
Jurassic World: Dominion is currently scheduled to be released on June 11, 2021, though that date could yet change, as production has only recently started back up after an almost four-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
Source: IGN.com Jurassic World 3 to Use More Animatronic Dinosaurs Than Past Two Films